Those wood bat summer leagues college players often join? Kinda cool. They’re so loose they make the low minors look like The Serious Leagues (Brian McCann: commissioner).

This extends to team names too, as the new team the Northwoods League up in Kalamazoo attests: it’s the Growlers. Which, sadly, is not about beer growlers. It’s bear-themed. Still kinda cool, but a missed opportunity there.

I hate whenever 80s wrestling comes up because you post this and I go “I remember them sort of, I should probably look them up on Wikipedia to refresh my memory” and then suddenly I have 40 Wikipedia tabs open because I realize I don’t know enough about Rick Martel and maybe there are some new developments in the murder of Bruiser Brody and one of the Moondogs was in Demolition? Didn’t Axe die? I should look into that too.

I just read King of The Ring results from before it was a PPV. I still have to read about The Yukon Lumberjacks and Jumbo Tsuruta (because I don’t know who they are) and Tom Zenk.

Hopefully none of those lead to any rabbit holes. I still have to look at porn.

tfbuckfutter - Nov 18, 2013 at 4:43 PM

I wish tag teams were billed by combined weight AND combined height.

dluxxx - Nov 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM

I spent many an evening in the “Dog Pound” in Mankato. They used to have tickets for $15 that had all you can drink tap beer and all you can eat brats and burgers. Those were the good old days. I hear they outlawed any “all you can drink” deals in Mankato now after enough drunk college kids fell in the river. It was way cooler when I was in college…

I actually got to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” there a few times too.